https://padlet.com/1409997/1r4ehrhtkqew4my6 My historic missions en-us 2022-03-09 15:14:01 UTC 2025-10-21 22:17:23 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f468-1f680.png 1409997 https://padlet.com/1409997/1r4ehrhtkqew4my6/wish/2088491314 On July 6 I was named the commander of the back up crew for Voskhod 1. But after a couple months of heated debates about the selection of the crew between Nikolai Kamanin and Sergei Korolev, I was named as prime crew commander on 4 October 1964, by the State Commission just eight days before its scheduled launch. On 9 October, me and the crew inspected the Voskhod with Korolev and other members of the administration. Later that day we were interviewed by the state press and played tennis for the benefit of photographers. On the morning of 11 October, I was given various communist relics to take with him into space the following day. In the afternoon the crew again inspected the capsule and were given their final instructions by Korolev. During the mission Komarov performed various tasks with the other crew members, including medical and navigational tests and observing the Aurora Borealis. Komarov alone carried out tests with ion thrusters that had been attached to the Voskhod. He also made a number of radio transmissions, including a greeting to the Tokyo Olympics, which had opened on 10 October. The mission lasted just over twenty-four hours. After the crew landed safely they were flown back to the launch site at Tyuratam.]]> 2022-03-10 14:49:31 UTC https://padlet.com/1409997/1r4ehrhtkqew4my6/wish/2088491314 1409997 https://padlet.com/1409997/1r4ehrhtkqew4my6/wish/2088493115 Voskhod 1 (October 12, 1964)
Soyuz 1 (April 23, 1967)]]> 2022-03-10 14:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/1409997/1r4ehrhtkqew4my6/wish/2088493115 1409997 https://padlet.com/1409997/1r4ehrhtkqew4my6/wish/2088521886 I was assigned to the Soviet Soyuz program along with Yuri Gagarin and Alexei Leonov. In July 1966, I was reprimanded by Kamanin for his unauthorized disclosure, while in Japan, that "the Soviet Union will, at the scheduled time, fly an automated spacecraft around the Moon and return it to Earth, to be followed by a dog flight, then a manned circumlunar flight." The following month I clashed with other engineers over ongoing design problems in which zero-G tests showed that the Soyuz module hatch was too small to allow the safe exit of a fully suited cosmonaut. Meanwhile, me and my fellow cosmonauts had their groups and assignments constantly revised, and we became increasingly anxious about the lack of response to their concerns about the design and manufacture of the spacecraft, which Yuri Gagarin had raised in a letter on their behalf to Leonid Brezhnev. I was selected to command the Soyuz 1, in 1967, with Yuri Gagarin as his backup cosmonaut. During the preparations for the spaceflight, both cosmonauts were working twelve- to fourteen-hour days. This was the mission that made me the first Russian astronaut to into space twice. ]]> 2022-03-10 15:03:33 UTC https://padlet.com/1409997/1r4ehrhtkqew4my6/wish/2088521886